Francisci Willughbeii Armig. De historia piscium libri quatuor : Jussu & sumptibus Societatis Regiæ Londinensis editi. In quibus non tantum de piscibus in genere agitur, sed & species omnes, tum ab aliis traditæ, tum novæ & nondum editæ bene multæ, naturæ ductum servante methodo dispositæ, accurate describuntur. Earumque effigies, quotquot haberi potuere, vel ad vivum delineatæ, vel ad optima exemplaria impressa; artifici manu elegantissime in æs incisæ, ad descriptiones illustrandas exhibentur. Cum appendice historias & observationes in supplementum operis collatas complectente. Totum opus recognovit, coaptavit, supplevit, librum etiam primum & secundum integros adjecit Johannes Raius e Societate Regia.

Author/creator Willughby, Francis
Other author Ray, John, 1627-1705.
Other author Somer, Paul van, 1649-1694, engraver.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxonii : E Theatro Sheldoniano, Anno Dom. 1686. [i.e. 1743?]
Description10 unnumbered pages, 343, 1 unnumbered page;30, 14 unnumbered pages;12 unnumbered pages, 209 unnumbered pages or 187 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 2⁰.
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Uniform titleDe historia piscium
Variant title De historia piscium libri quatuor
Variant title Francisci Willoughby Icthyographia
Variant title Icthyographia
General noteWith an additional title page, engraved, "Francisci Willoughby Icthyographia ... Sumptibus Societatis Regalis Londinensis, 1685", signed "Paul van Somer jnuent et fecit Londini". This is often placed as a title page to the plates when they are bound following the text or in a separate volume.
General note"Appendix ad historiam naturalem piscium" (caption title) has separate pagination and register. "Index piscium in Ithyographia Willughbeiana ... curâ Cromwelli Mortimeri ..." (caption title) has separate register (a-c², signatures in square brackets) and colophon "Londini: prostant venales apud Carolum Davis ... & Thomam Woodward ... Regalis Societatis typographos. M.DCC.XL."
General noteSequences of plates occur printed on rectos and versos both (state 1) or on rectos only (state 2). State 1 plates may include eight blank leaves. The four plates numbered "Appendicis tab. 5[-8]" may have fish identifications provided with pasted-on letterpress-printed slips (state a) or as names engraved in the plates with the images (state b). State b presumably constitutes a separate printing of the plates.
General noteIncludes errata leaf and indexes.
General noteReproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".
References Keynes, 47
References English Short Title Catalog, N51867.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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